Display device



` Feb. 2, 1937. Q W, KRESS 4 2,069,528

` DISPLAY DEVICEl Filed May 25, 1935 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 HHH Hm i UIN! mi!! will! I HIHI INVENTOR @laude [lf/0659s* BY Am ,mm/Mom 20 ATTORN EYS Fb. 2, 1,937. C, W KRESS 2,069,528

DISPLAY DEVICE I Filed May 25, 1935 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 ATTORNEYS Patented Feb. 2, 1.937'

UNITED STATES oFFlcE;

2 Claims.

My present invention relates to display fixtures, more especially for exposing to the View of the customen'an assortment of slender articles, such as tools including files, auger bits, drills and thev like.

It is an object of the invention to provide a rugged, compact, attractive, relatively inexpensive display xture of the above type, by which a wide assortment of the devices are securely held, but exposed to View in association with speciiication plates for facility in selection.

Another object is to provide a device of the above type, which occupies a negligible amount of the effective space on a counter and is yet stable and substantially proof against being upset or disarranged.

Another object is to provide a display of the above type, which lends itself readily to change of name plates, for alteration of prices and the like.

In the accompanying drawings, in which are shown one or more of various possible embodiments of the several features of the invention,

Fig. 1 is a front view of one embodiment of the display,

Fig. 2 is a view in transverse cross-section on line 2-2 of Fig. 1,

Fig. 3 is a plan view of the display,

Fig. 4 is a perspective View of the device on a smaller scale,

Fig. 5 is a front view of another embodiment,

Fig. 6 is a View in longitudinal cross-section taken on line 6 6 of Fig. 5, and

Fig. 7 is a view in transverse cross-section on a smaller scale, taken on line 1--1 of Fig. 6.

Referring to the drawings, 'the embodiment of Figs. 1 to 4 comprises a display unit, illustratively for les, comprising panel blocks B of substantial thickness, each preferably keystone shaped and ordinarily of wood. Each block includes a narrow flat bottom III outwardly flared or radiating sides II and I2, and an arcuate top surface I3 which has a multiplicity of sockets s therein, preferably radially thereof and each preferably in the order of one inch deep. The sockets are of assorted sizes and each serves to house the shank of a corresponding file or equivalent slender tool or article, so that when the tools are in position, they radiate upwardly and outwardly from the panel block which rises from its narrow bottom IIJ.

In the preferred embodiment shown, a series, illustratively three of such blocks B', B2 and B3 is employed preferably all sectors of the same angularity, but stepped for progressively greater radial height and arcuate width as shown. The

largest socket holes s3 are in the largest or rear panel block B3 for lodging the largest tools, while the smallest tools are lodged in the corespondingly smaller sockets s of the forward panel block B', the tools of intermediate size being in the sockets s2 of the middle panel block B2.

A common carrier bar I5, preferably of wood, may be lodged in corresponding notches I6 in the bottoms of the respective blocks and is secured thereto by screws I'I to retain the blocks in parallel and spaced relation. The carrier bar admits of being mounted on a conventional shelf bracket I8 which in this instance is attached by means of a gooseneck I9 tor the ledge 20 on top of the counter ZI and into which are threaded screws 22 passing through the carrier bar I5. The forward end of the bracket I8 may be sustained by a strut comprising the conventional long screw 23 reacting against the counter and threaded into a tapped tube 24 extending downward from the bracket I8.

The device preferably has name plates 25 on the front face of the respective panels. Said name plates designate the specifications and prices of the les or other slender articles lodged in the corresponding sockets. In the particular embodiment shown, the name plates extend in front of the respective rows of sockets, so that thedevice as shown, aords a stock of three units each, of an assortment of twenty-one different slender articles. The name plates are preferably of metal, each of truncated sector shape, with the contacting edges 26 thereof extending radially of the respective sector panels, said various name plates affixed as by tacks 2l in radial contact with each other, to assume an arch relation with respect to each other. The name plates cover the annular arc at the outer or upper rim of each panel, so that the name plates on all of the panels are completely exposed to view from the front of the device, each set of name plates extending above the rim of the neighboring panel block in front of it.

It is, of course, understood that the device could be made with a lesser or a greater number of the panel blocks, which may be of greater or lesser angular spread and that the tops of the respective panels may be flat or along ornamental curves, although the particular arcuate arrangement described is preferred, since the various slender articles will thus radiate outwardly from above the various panel blocks, to be spaced substantially at their tops, which facilitates selective removal In the embodiment of Figs. 5, 6, and 7 which is specifically shown appliedto drills, although useful for any other assortment of slender articles, a single display blockV 30" of generally keystone shape is shown. This block which may also be of wood, is of thicknessrof substantially the order of its width at the reduced bottom 3l thereof. The sides 32 and 33 are shown vflaring outwardly in curved relation, to afford a generally sectorshaped unit with'a top 34 curved on aV circular arc. The top of the panel block islpreferably inV clined upwardly from its forward face to its rear,

as appears best in Figs,V 5 and 6. The various sockets S are bored downward from the inclined arcuate top, to accommodate the drills or other slender articles,'which are .thus caused to fan outwardly radially of the sector, and' also to be stepped in the successive tiers from` the front tor the back` of the block, for feasibility ofrdisplay andV convenience ofV handling'. AV single name' plate 36 is shown afiixed to the front ofthe panel block and includes the appropriate specifications of Vtheunits in the respective' rows of socketsY (in this instance Iillustratively five deep) all of Ywhich sockets Y are of size and shape appropriate to the tools they are to accommodate.l Y

' In the present case, the panel block30 is ,carriedon a metal support which includes an angle bar 40, a standard 4I unitary therewith, with aV platform 42 at the upper end thereof, upon which the panel block Vis secured'by means of screws 43 threadedY into -the Ybottom thereof.k Y The upright 4| of the standard is `shown in Fig. 6 at anangle differing slightly from degrees with respect to the angle 4410i the angle bar, so-that when the the'useful space on the counter, since the bracket in each case is supported directly at the ange ror rim ofthe counter and the panel block or.

blocks are elevated well above the counter. 'Y It will thus be seen that there is herein 'de-Y scribed an article in which the several features of this invention are embodied, and which articleV in service attains the various objects ofY the invention andis well suited to meet the requirements of practical use.

construction, and many apparently widely differ- Y ent embodiments of this invention could be made without departing from the scope thereof, itis intended that all matter contained in the above Y Y 1o As many changes could be made in the abovek description orshown in the accompanying draw ings shall.V be interpreted as illustrative and` not ina limiting sense. n

, Having thus described my invention, what I claim as .new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States isz-- i Y l. A display device for an assortment of slender articles, such as drills, files, bits and the like,

comprisingfa plurality ofkeystone-shaped panel .Y blocks in parallel relation, and of graduated-size,

a common support retaining'said panel blocks in fixed spaced relation, each of. saidpanel blocks having an arcuate upper surface with sockets therein for supportingthe slender tools to radiate upwardly and outwardly therefrom.

height, av common bar to which said blocks are,

affixed in spaced-parallel relation, saidbar counf v 3() Y 2. A'display device for an assortment of slender Y articles, such as drills, illes, bits andV the:` like, comprising arseries of vpanell blocks'of graduated Y tersunk in .correspondingV grooves in the lowerV 1 ends of said panel blocks, said bar adapted tobe Y( mounted on va gooseneck supported bracket arm over a counter, each of said panelV blocks having Ysockets in the upper arcuate surface thereof ifor supporting the articles. Y

CLAUDE W. KRESS. 

